Aragon/Rawlings...April,27.1949...Detroit.

On a card that included exhibition bouts featuring ring legends Willie Pep and Jack Dempsey, Art Aragon battled Luther Rawlings in the main event, dropping a close 10-round decision to a local favorite in a fight the Associated Press described as "One of the best scraps seen in a Detroit ring in years, so hard-fought it had the crowd of 10,062 tossing paper from the rafters into the ring as a way of cheering the bloody brawlers."